Jeffrey Crosbie Clinical Oncology Society of Australia 2014 Annual Scientific Meeting

Jeffrey Crosbie

Jeffrey (Jeff) Crosbie is an NH&MRC Early Career Research Fellow working on a novel form of radiation therapy for cancer using synchrotron-generated X-rays. He has recently returned from Grenoble, France where he was a Visiting Scientist at the European Synchrotron Radiation Facility. Jeff is a medical physicist by profession and has worked at The Alfred Hospital's radiotherapy centre in Melbourne. He obtained his PhD from Monash University in 2009 for his thesis entitled Synchrotron microbeam radiation therapy. Jeff came to Australia in 2002. He worked as a medical physicist in the UK for two years from 2001 to 2002 obtaining Chartered Physicist status from the Institute of Physics during this time. He received his MSc from the National University of Ireland (Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland) in 2001 and a Postgraduate Diploma in the physical sciences and engineering in medicine from Trinity College Dublin in 1998. He read Natural Sciences at Trinity College Dublin and obtained a BA (Hons) in experimental physics in 1996.